Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)

Cedric A. Collingwood, Donat Agosti, Mostafa R. Sharaf & Antonius van Harten, 2011, Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae, Arthropod fauna of the UAE 4, pp. 1-70 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.1168586
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6193674
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A4C094D-372C-FFF7-ED4F-A6F01882EB90
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793)
status

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Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius, 1793) View in CoL

Specimens examined: Sharjah, 2.iii.2005, CAC. Sharjah Desert Park, 6–28.xii.2006, PT, AvH. Wadi Safad, 26.xii.2005–2.i.2006, WT, AvH.

Distribution: One of the world’s most damaging invasive species, becoming a dominant species in many areas it has invaded ( Dejean et al., 2007). In the Arabian Peninsula known from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Yemen. New to the UAE.